October 25, 2011

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The public's approval rating of Congress just keeps sinking lower and lower.

Just 9 percent of Americans are happy with Congress's job performance, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Tuesday night — marking a record low approval rating for Congress since the poll began asking that question in 1977, according to CBS News.

Eleven percent of Republicans approve of how Congress is doing, while 10 percent of Democrats and 9 percent of independents give Capitol Hill a thumbs up, according to the poll.

The poll results also took a whack at congressional Republicans, with just 20 percent of Americans saying they believe the GOP has a "clear plan" for job creation. But the public is not much happier with President Barack Obama, with 38 percent saying that the president has a "clear plan" to create jobs, the poll says.

And as the nation's jobless rate remains stuck at 9.1 percent and congressional bickering persists, the public isn't too confident that Republicans and Democrats will be able to together on a jobs plan. About 73 percent of Americans said they are either "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that lawmakers could agree on a bipartisan jobs plan, according to the poll.

The poll surveyed 1,650 adults from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Posted by Seung Min Kim 07:42 PM

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